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Integrated styrene chain: benzene to styrene monomer

AlkylationDehydrogenationStyreneIntegrated process
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The full two-step styrene chain connected as one flowsheet rather than two standalone process snippets: benzene alkylated with ethylene to ethylbenzene, purified in a recovery column, then fed directly to the dehydrogenation reactor that makes styrene monomer. The unreacted ethylbenzene the dehydrogenation column recovers is reported as its own product stream rather than recycled back onto the alkylation feed (an honest simplification — closing that loop needs a torn-recycle edge back into ALKCOL, which the plant does but this flowsheet does not).

The flowsheet

The solved topology — every unit op's real duty, conversion, or split, read straight off a genuine converged solve.

FEED
Alkrx
COOL
feed
dist
btms
Alkcol
Light ENDS
Reheat
Dehydro
SEP
Offgas H2
feed
dist
btms
Stycol
Ethylbenzene Product
Styrene Product

The stream table

Every stream's flow, temperature, pressure, and composition — real converged numbers, not placeholders.

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